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Designing a Restaurant Menu

Author

Released

1/17/2012

In this course, author Nigel French shows how to create a cost-effective, elegantly styled restaurant menu with Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. The course develops three menu designs: folder, four-panel card, and single-page, exploring the design considerations for each, such as size, folding, typeface, and paper stock. The course also sheds light on incorporating logos, choosing appropriate color schemes, and producing menus online and in print.

Topics include:

Adding text and design elements

Adding texture with a Photoshop brush

Creating a proof

Adding stylized headers

Designing menu inserts

Placing and cleaning up text

Creating a template

Adding a textured background

Preparing a menu for print

Skill Level Appropriate for all

2h 46m

Duration

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- [Voiceover] Hi, Im Nigel French.Welcome to Designing a Restaurant Menu.An attractive and functional menuis essential for the success of any restaurant or cafe.In this course, we'll be using a real world projectto create a cafe menu that is readable, elegant,and this is important, affordable and easyto update and produce.We'll look at three possible design solutions,ultimately coming up with three very different menus.Most of our work will be done in Adobe InDesign,but we'll also be using Adobe Photoshopand Adobe Illustrator.

For each design solution, we'll considerthe following important factors:size, format, folding,color scheme, type-face choice,the use of texture, and the choice of paper.So let's get started.